The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-12-21
SOUIH CAROLINA BUDS.
senator Buffers Daughters who will be I'm
Washington Society this Nvinter

| senator Butlcr's Daughters Who will be I'm
Washington Society this Winter.
y Washington correspondent of the
| New York World gives long list, illus
tratcd with portraits, of the ''buds" who
VIII enter Washington society this win
| ter. He says:
| SENATOR Butler, OF South Carolina, is
ono Of the most courtly and handsome
men III the United States Senate, and his
daughters will be among the brightest of
Sle rosebuds of the capital this winter.
Miss Marie Butler had Just II taste of
washington society last season, and Miss
Elise VIII make her first appearance on
New Year $. They both seem very
pretty. Miss Marie is very stylish and
highly accomplished Sine speaks FRENCH
iiuently, and, like her sister Elise, is
very fond Of horseback riding. The
picture give you OF her is an equestrian
one nni it Is taken from an instantane-
GUS photograph of Der seated on her
fovorite horse, Frisettc, while standing
IN one OF the roads OF the family estate,
East Hill, near Edgefed, S. C.
My picture OF Elise, who is a little bit
more Of rosebud than Marie, was taken
at the same time, and it represents her
In riding costume but does not show
forth the full beauty OF her features.
Miss Elise Butler is beautiful girl. She
is of medium height, well formed, and
her large blue eyes look ont over fair
checks, rosy with color. Like her sister
Marie, she Is q good French scholar, and
she wiIi be, rs Marie was last winter,
very popular with the diplomats. She
IS fond Of reading. and is an accomplish
ed talkor. The Washington home of
tie But.ers is in the most fashionable
quarter OF the city. Ii is within stones
throw OF the British legation, not fur
from Blaino's house facing Dupont Cir
Gle, and just around the corner from
where Secretary Manning lived last win
ter and where the Count NHtkiowiez
lives now. 1t is red pressed brick.
bearing the number l,7jl p street, and
is very comfortably furnished. Mrs.
Butler comes of one Of the best families
Of the Palmetto State, and as for the
Senator, his ancestors were the Dukes of
Ormand, one of whom was lieutenant
general Of the Royal troops during the
Irish insurrectiOn OF 1911, and who was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1914. He
stuck to the Grown when Cromwell
seized the Government. He proclaimed
Charles IL IN Ireland and made an un-
successful attempt to capture Dublin in
lGl9. Cromwell, however, drove him
out OF Ireland during the following year,
and Charles Ii made him a duke when
he came into power
The mans name was James Butler
Ormand, and one OF his descendants,
Pierce Butler, who was third son Of
Sir Richard Butler, OF Ireland, came to
this country as u major in the British
army. He resigned, however, before the
Revolution and settled in Charleston,
and 1t is from him, think, that the
present Butler family originates. He
was member o! the first United States
Senate, and one OF his sons married Miss
Fanny Kemble, the actress. The pattern
nj grandfather Of the Misses Butler was
In Congress, one of their granduncles
was All officer in the American army and
was killed IN the Mexican war, and
another grandunclc wes the United
States Senator In defence of whom
Preston S. Brooks, relative, assaulted
Charles Sumter, inasmuch as Senator
Batter was not at Washington at the
time Summers attack upon him in the
Senate was made. Senator Buffers
mother was Perry, and she was the
youngest sister Of Commodore Oliver I'll.
Perry, the hero of the battle of Iake
Brie.